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  • Captain Cook's War & Peace

    The Royal Navy Years, 1755–1768

    by John Robson ...
    Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768? As this new book shows, by that date he had become supremely and uniquely qualified for the exacting tasks of exploration.This was a period when who you were and who you knew counted for more than ability, but Cook, through his own skills and application, rose up through the ranks of the Navy to become a remarkable ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Miscellaneous Writings

    Volume XXXI

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series Book XXXI - Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
    The interests and activities of John Stuart Mill (1806–73) were so wide-ranging that even the varied subjects of thirty previously published volumes of Collected Works cannot encompass them all. In this volume are brought together diverse and interesting instances of his polymathic career, none before republished and some previously unpublished.Neatly framing Mill’s writing career are his ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Journals and Debating Speeches

    Volumes XXVI-XXVII

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series Book XXVI-XXVII - Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
    One of the constant fascinations Mill holds for the general public as well as scholars derives from the early flowering of his genius. This development is seen in detail in the journal and notebook he kept in France during his fifteenth year, and in the debating speeches and walking-tour journals dating from his eighteenth to twenty-fourth years. This was the period when he first adopted ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Postmodern Spirituality in the Age of Entitlement

    by David John Robson ...
    In POSTMODERN SPIRITUALITY IN THE AGE OF ENTITLEMENT, impatience, quickness, and the need for instant gratification unconsciously push the postmodern person towards "social and spiritual shallowness." Attempting to cope with an ever-increasing flow and flood of information, knowledge, and data, we skim and scan, instead of deep reading and absorption. David Robson weaves numerous thoughtful and ... Read more

    $3.68 USD

  • Newspaper Writings

    Volumes XXII-XXV

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series Book XXII-XXV - Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
    For just over fifty years John Stuart Mill contributed articles and letters to the newspapers, setting before the public a radical position on contemporary events. From 1822 to 1873, in newspapers as widely read as The Times and the Morning Chronicle, and as narrowly circulated as the True Sun and the New Times, he praised his friends and damned his opponents, while commenting on a while range of ... Read more

    $178.59 USD

  • Essays on England, Ireland, and Empire

    Volume VI

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series Book 6 - Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
    John Stuart Mill's political essays are a blend of the practical and the theoretical. In this volume are gathered together those in which the practical emphasis is more marked; those in which theory is predominant are found in Essays on Politics and Society, Vols XVIII and XIX of the Collected Works. The Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire are mainly from Mill's early career as a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Essays on French History and Historians

    Volume XX

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series Book 20 - Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
    J.S. Mill's deep interest in French intellectual, political, and social affairs began in 1820 when, in his fourteenth year, he went to France to live for a year with the family of Sir Samuel Bentham. French became his second language, and France his second home, where he died and was buried in 1873. His interest in history began even earlier when, as a child of seven, he tried to imitate his ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy

    Volume IX

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series Book 9 - Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
    An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, first published in 1865, with a second edition in the same year, and third and fourth editions in 1867 and 1872, has long been out of print. The Examination was, for his contemporaries, a most significant and popular work, presenting an extended treatment of some matters central to empiricism that found little space in Mill's Logic, the best ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • Autobiography

    by John Robson, John Stuart Mill ...
    One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works - including On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women and this Autobiography - are among ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • On Liberty

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who organized the idea into a philosophy, and put it into the form in which it is generally known today ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • The Infidel and the Professor

    David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

    by Dennis C. Rasmussen ...
    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Culture and Anarchy

    by Matthew Arnold ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is, what good it can do, what is our own special need ... Read more

    $8.99 USD